Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Ecoagriculture
Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on conservation and developmexamine the idea that...
God and the Human Environment
Catholic Principles of Environmental Stewardship as a Template for Action in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
God and the Human Environment: Catholic Principles of Environmental Stewardship as a Template for Action in Nigeria brings into conversation the Churchs theological reflection on the mandate to care for Gods creation and the circumstances of the environment in Nigeria. In vivid terms and with systemic...
Aires marine protégées ouest-africaines
Défis scientifiques et enjeux sociétaux
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Les écosystèmes côtiers, qui concentrent actuellement 70 % dela population mondiale, sont particulièrement impactés par le changement climatique et les activités anthropiques. D’où les espoirs placés dans la création d’aires marines protégées (AMP), qui favorisent la résilience des...
Rachel Carson
Witness for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement.
In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation....
by James B. Blackburn Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In this powerful call to action, conservationist and environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn offers an unconventional yet feasible plan to protect the Texas coast. The coast is in danger of being damaged beyond repair due to the gradual starvation of freshwater inflows to its bays, the fragmentation of...
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.
Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices...
The Genius of Earth Day
How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political...
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.†? -The Wall Street Journal
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still...
Money for the Cause
A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out field-tested approaches that have been...
Nature's Allies
Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges—but we need inspiration more than ever. With political leaders who deny climate change, species that are fighting for their very survival, and the planet's last places of wilderness growing smaller and smaller, what can a single...
Leaving It To Beaver
Co-existence strategies for municipalities and landowners
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conflict with nature will always occur, this is true. But by acknowledging the constant growth of biological and ecological sciences, we can mitigate – and at times entirely prevent – such conflicts.
The reason The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals (APFA) has undertaken...
Culture and the Question of Rights
Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental...
On a Farther Shore
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement
She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it...